WBUR's The ARTery Spotlights the Next Generation of Artists in Arts Forward: Imagining the Future

Pop songs of the future. 3D scanning and printing of museum objects. Drone filmmaking. An online social network that connects young classical musicians to local audiences through concert house parties. WBUR’s The ARTery, Boston’s home page for arts and culture at artery.wbur.org, takes a look at the next generation of visual and performing arts in Boston and beyond in Arts Forward: Imagining the Future. The five-part radio and web-series asks Boston artists and innovators to imagine what the future of museums, music, theater and filmmaking will look like. Arts Forward premieres on WBUR, Boston’s NPR’s news station, Monday, Sept. 14, during Morning Edition.

“The ARTery’s Arts Forward is a look at the future of arts in Greater Boston and beyond with exciting stops along the way, looking at the next big things in visual arts, theater and music,” says Ed Siegel, editor and critic-at-large for WBUR’s ARTery. “This series is part of WBUR’s ongoing commitment to covering the local arts in a meaningful and substantial way.”

The multiplatform series will take an engaging look at the impact of technology on the arts experience and how art organizations are attempting to identify where the next generation of audiences are coming from and mold their strategies to reach them. The project will include five audio stories and longer digital versions on The ARTery’s website.

Arts Forward
Segment Descriptions

21st Century Museum
Premieres on air and online Monday, Sept. 14th
Andrea Shea explores how at the end of the 20th century museums like MassMOCA, the deCordova and the Institute for Contemporary Art have become more than places to see art on a wall. Museums are now moving toward technology to alter and enhance the relationship between artists, galleries, collectors and art conservationists with geo-locating and 3-D printing.

Theater
Premieres on air and online Tuesday, Sept. 15th
Ed Siegel takes a look at how Company One Theatre has been able to attract such a diverse, young audience with progressive programming and creative outreach.

Pop Music.
Premieres on air and online Wednesday, Sept. 16th
What will pop music sound like in 50 years? Amelia Mason consults a variety of music industry folks: producers, critics, engineers and musicians in a quest to discover what a pop song will sound like in 2065. And will the proliferation of streaming services permanently upend the importance of radio play?

Film & Video
Premieres on air and online Thursday, Sept. 17
Greg Cook along with Curt Nickisch look at how economies of scale have made drone technology more integrated into our society. The technology is now increasingly affordable and common and has democratized the future of filmmaking by making it easier to capture footage that would have been impossible to get before.

Classical Music
Premieres online Friday, Sept. 18th
Ed Siegel looks at the growing trend to make classical music less elitist. Groupmuse holds parties with classical performers in people’s living rooms; superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter goes clubbing; composer Max Richter has an eight-hour concert with the audience in beds.

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